# Soulslike Enemy Combat

> Enemy combat AI for Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8: souls-like enemies that keep their distance, take turns, parry and dodge, set up in Blueprint with no C++, in single player and multiplayer.

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## Overview

- [Soulslike Enemy Combat: Enemy AI for Unreal Engine 5](https://rigbak.com/docs/SoulslikeCombatDocs.md): Enemy combat AI plugin for Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8: souls-like enemies that keep their distance, take turns, parry and dodge, set up in Blueprint with no C++, in single player and multiplayer.

## Start here

- [Getting Started with Soulslike Enemy Combat](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/getting-started.md): Turn the plugin on and get a live enemy that spots the player, closes the distance and holds its range, with no C++.
- [Step-by-Step Enemy Creation](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/step-by-step-enemy.md): Build one enemy end to end: pawn, controller, a moveset with a combo, a weapon that lands its hits, and something to fight.
- [Minimal Enemy](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/minimal-enemy.md): The smallest enemy the plugin can drive: a plain Character, a plain AI Controller, six components, one action, no StateTree.
- [AI Agent Guide: Build Unreal Engine Combat with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/agents.md): An Unreal Engine 5 combat plugin made for AI coding agents: hand Claude Code, Codex or Cursor the guide the plugin ships, and it builds a souls-like enemy from your own mesh and animations in your open editor, with no C++.

## The systems

- [Movement System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/movement-system.md): Give an enemy tactical positioning: create a movement profile, set the range it holds, point the AI Config at it.
- [Action System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/action-system.md): Give an enemy a moveset: create an Action Set, point an action at a montage, and let scoring pick the right move.
- [Action Set Editor](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/action-set-editor.md): Lay a moveset out as cards, wire the combos between them, and watch a live enemy score every card while the fight runs.
- [Reaction System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/reaction-system.md): Give an enemy an answer to what happens to it: author a reaction, point a trigger rule at the event, and it parries, dodges or flinches on its own.
- [Reaction Set Editor](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/reaction-set-editor.md): Lay an enemy's answers out as cards, draw an arrow from each rule to the reactions it may pick, and watch a live enemy answer.
- [Telegraphs](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/attack-telegraphs.md): Make a montage announce what a character is doing: one notify on the wind-up, and the enemies standing in front of it get a chance to parry, dodge or stand their ground.
- [Combat Roles](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/combat-roles.md): Coordinate a pack: cap how many enemies attack at once, and swap each enemy's moveset, reactions and movement to match the role it holds.
- [Combat Tokens](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/combat-tokens.md): Cap how many enemies swing at once: add one gate to the attack, set the pool size, and the rest keep circling.
- [Targeting System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/targeting-system.md): Give every enemy something to fight: register the player once, pick how each AI chooses, and the pack engages.
- [Threat Detection](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/threat-detection.md): Turn the player's camera attention into a 0 to 1 reading, and make an enemy swap sides or give ground under a stare.
- [Awareness System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/awareness-system.md): Give an enemy senses: it spots you on sight, hears what it cannot see, remembers where you went, and gives up when the trail goes cold.
- [Territory & Patrols](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/territory.md): Give an enemy ground of its own: place posts, list them on the enemy, and set a leash so a chase ends where you say.
- [Animation Integration](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/animation-integration.md): Author combat timing on the animation itself: hold a gameplay tag for a montage window, mirror it into an animation Blueprint bool, and steer an attack toward its target.
- [Melee Trace](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/melee-trace.md): Make a swing connect: swept weapon traces on the attack montage, damage per window, and impact effects when it lands.
- [Weapons](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/weapons.md): Arm an enemy: build a weapon Blueprint, drop it in the starting loadout, and the enemy spawns holding it and fighting from its moveset.
- [Vitals](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/vitals.md): Give a pawn resource pools: health that kills it at zero, stamina that refills on its own, and any other pool you name.
- [Defense System](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/defense-system.md): Give a pawn a guard: create a Defense Rule Set, author one response, and an incoming hit is parried, blocked or ignored before it reaches health.
- [Configuration Reference](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/configuration.md): Every SEC setting and the one place you set it: project settings, the Enemy AI Config, the data assets, the components.
- [Multiplayer Enemy AI](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/multiplayer.md): Enemy AI for co-op and multiplayer games in Unreal Engine 5: the server decides every attack, reaction and move, on a listen server or a dedicated server, and every client receives the health, action, role and weapon state a HUD draws from.
- [Determinism](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/determinism.md): Tick one box and an enemy fights the same fight every time: the same actions in the same order, from a seed you choose.

## Reference

- [StateTree Integration](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/statetree.md): Author the enemy's shape as a graph: point the AI Config at a StateTree and patrol, investigate, fight and walk home become states you can see.
- [Core Architecture](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/architecture.md): The map of the plugin: which piece lives where, what decides, what replicates, and the console switch that shows each part running.
- [Common Patterns & Examples](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/patterns.md): Seven enemy archetypes as recipes: the numbers to type, and the field each one goes in.
- [Debugging & Troubleshooting](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/troubleshooting.md): The symptom you are looking at, the one thing that causes it, and the fix.
- [Performance](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/performance.md): What SEC costs, the three knobs that cut it, and how to read stat SEC on your own hardware.
- [API Reference](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/api-reference.md): The C++ and Blueprint surface: the controller components, the combat token subsystem, the melee trace pipeline, territory lookups, and the scorer and gate bases.

## Guides

- [Souls-like Enemy Combat in Unreal Engine 5: Where to Start](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/soulslike-combat-ue5.md): What a Dark Souls style melee enemy needs in Unreal Engine 5 (senses, spacing, readable attacks, parries and dodges, group turns, bosses) and the Soulslike Enemy Combat page that sets up each one in Blueprint.
- [Enemies That Take Turns Attacking](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/enemies-take-turns.md): Stop a group of enemies from attacking the player all at once in Unreal Engine 5: one swings, the rest circle and wait their turn, set up in Blueprint with no C++.
- [Enemies That Parry, Dodge and Counter](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/enemy-parry-dodge-counter.md): Make AI enemies in Unreal Engine 5 that parry, dodge and counter-attack the player's swings, set up in Blueprint with no C++.
- [Tactical Enemy Movement: Strafing, Circling and Spacing](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/tactical-enemy-movement.md): Make enemies strafe, circle the player and keep their distance instead of walking straight at them in Unreal Engine 5, set up in Blueprint with no C++.
- [Souls-like Boss Fights: Phases, an Arena and Attacks That Read the Player](https://rigbak.com/docs/soulslike-combat/boss-fights.md): Build an Elden Ring style boss in Unreal Engine 5: a second moveset at a health threshold, an arena that opens and ends the fight, a boss health bar, and attacks that answer what the player does, set up in Blueprint with no C++.